Actually you'd be surprised how much our Royal Family does for our country. The amount of money we make off them as a tourist attraction is ridiculous. Seriously, all those Japanese tourists gawping at Buckingham Palace bring in a ********** of income.

I knew she was used as a tourist attraction and she brings in money, but I meant like in comparison to Obama who actually does things. The Queen just makes money, watches her family get married and sign the occasional permission form while she plays with her stubby-legged dogs.

all though the royals do a lot less than what they used to they still have athority and sometimes need to be asked for things like permission to do....... i dont know, political **** and stuff to do with war

Once, back in the day, the Queen attended a S.A.S. training session. They were doing something called the "Kill House" where a team goes through a house in the dark and clears it out from inanimate targets. The thing that makes it different from other peoples training excercises is that they use live ammo. The Queen and her bodyguard went inside the Killing House and waited in a room, play acting as hosting for the S.A.S. to save from kidnappers. The troops burst into the room and "killed" all the targets without touching the Queen or her bodyguard. The Queen was reported to be totally calm during the whole thing while her bodyguard actually flipped his **** and started freaking out when they started shouting.

I've read a study that concludes that if they had gone through with operation unthinkable (invasion of the soviet union), with the full support of the other allies, they could very well have succeeded, and the world would look very different today.

True, by the end of the war the Russians had gone from a having a small army of untrained peasants with obsolete equipment to a huge modern army with real training, modern weaponry, and massive manufacturing capabilities.

But all that was thanks to the western allies.
Without their support Russia would start collapsing back into what it was before the war.

Sure they'd still have millions of men, massive factories and thousands of tanks and aircraft. But they could never build new ones as fast as the allies would destroy them.
And their people would starve.

And with the seemingly limitless finance and manufacturing abilities of the US behind them, along with atomic technology, and the shear combat experience of the Germans, the Russians would lose. But it would not be a quick fight.

In the end we can debate this for hours, but we can never know for sure what would have happened.

Nobody ever asked for it to be taken down. It was intentionally posted on the White House website with a notice that it was not to be edited, and, of course, the political world underestimated the internet yet again.